1810 US Census - Orangeburgh District, SC
Jno Sterkey
2 free white males to age 10 (born 1800-1810)
1 free white male to age 17 (born 1794-1800)
1 free white male 26 - 45 (born 1765-1784)
3 free white females to age 10 (born 1800-1810)
1 free white female age 25-45 (born 1765 - 1784)
**Same page as Wm. Sterkie

Source Citation: Year: 1810; Census Place: Not Stated, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Roll: 61; Page: 190; Image: 212.00.

1820 US Census - Orangeburgh District, SC
John Sturkey
3 free white males to age 10 (born 1810-1820)
2 free white males to age 26 - 45 (born 1775-1794)
**SPA: Daniel, Wm and David Sturkey; no slaves

Source Citation: Year: 1820; Census Place: Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Roll: M33_118; Page: 367; Image: 294.

1830 US Census - Orangeburgh District, SC
John Sturkie
1 free white male age 5-10 (born1820-1825)
1 free white male age 15-20 (born1810-1815)
1 free white male age 50-60 (born 1770-1780)
1 free white female age 10-15 (born 1815-1820)
1 free white female age 15-20 (born 1810-1815)
1 free white female age 50-60 (born 1770-1780)

1840 US Census - Orangeburgh District, SC
John Sturkee
1 free white male age 15 -20 (born 1820-1825)
2 free white males age 20-30 (born 1810-1820)
1 free white male age 50-60 (born 1770-1780)
1 free white female age 10-15 (born 1825-1830)
1 free white female age 60-70 (born 1770-1780}

**Slave schedule 1840 shows 2 slaves

1850 US Census - Lexington, District, SC
John Sturkie
John Sturkie age 68 (Carpenter)
Martha Sturkie age 69
Martha E. Sturkie age 20
Margaret Sturkie age 86

Marriage and Death Notices from Baptist Newspapers of South Carolina, 1835-1865
Southern Baptist
Issue of March 14, 1855
page 51

Baptist Marriages and Deaths, South Carolina, 1835-1865, p.51
Died, on the 6th Nov. last, at his son's residence, in Lexington Dist., S. C., John Sturkie , in the 72d year of his age…member of the Church at Bull Swamp.…

Lexington CO Book S pp 393-394
Oct. 23, 1854
Conveyance of 25 acres of Land
John Sturkie to
Mitchell W. Sharp
25 acres on Little Pond Branch of N. Edistor River known as the Hoover place adjoining Lands of richard Sturkie, John Harth and Daniel Jefcoat.
Excepting saw mill timber
Witnesses: Richard Sturkie and Michael Sharpe

It has been speculated that Martha Ann is the daughter of Nicholas Rickenbacker. Nicholas had two females aged 16-26 in his household in the 1800 census. One of these could have been Martha.79

I speculate that Martha Ann (Rickenbacker) Sturkie, born abt. 1781, was the daughter of Nicholas(1) Rickenbacker but the evidence is thin and I'm currently carrying her as a missing link. If her birthdate is approximately correct, then Nicholas(1) is the only Rickenbacker in the
1800 census with unaccounted for females of the right age.

All of my information on Martha came from the Sturkie family. By my count, there are approximately 20 un-accounted for Rickenbackers in Generation 4. Martha is probably one of these. My web page on the First Rickenbachers gives the probable number of chlidren in each Generation 3
family and lists those I can identify.
http://borisbrooks.com/genealogy/kbdata/1st_rick.htm

Jim Rickenbacker
Kingwood, TX
jim@borisbrooks.com
Home Page: http://borisbrooks.com